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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP05 Jun 2026 11:09 p.m. PST

… Western That's Worth Revisiting


"Well before he portrayed Captain Jonas Grumby, aka. The Skipper, on "Gilligan's Island," Alan Hale Jr. appeared in the Kirk Douglas Western "The Big Trees." The 1952 feature was just one example of Hale Jr. working alongside renowned Western stars, with the future Skipper actor also having appeared in Gary Cooper and Gregory Peck oaters. But Douglas was the only one of these screen legends with whom Hale Jr. worked post-"Gilligan's Island," when the pair both starred in 1970's "There Was a Crooked Man…"

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